streaming. many of these folks are on the front lines that are wanting to partner, that are willing to stand up but lord come in closing, you said today that words from jesus blessed are those that are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. lord, we look those up today boys and girls, men and women across the world that are in the situation. may we do our part to stand to represent you and represent our faith per way that in the name of jesus amen. ♪ >> good morning. thank you so much to matt and marcy they have been dear friends for a hate to say it, 20 years. i knew them before they were together. we had that meeting some of you

at the white house yesterday with us for a look at her and said while i remember it when we were working together and you are pregnant. her youngest daughter is now 15 years old. i was like wow, time passes but it is such a privilege to be here. it's just in such an extraordinary job hunt so great to be here with you. the newly created historic white house state office open office as before. is it faith-based initiatives that produce and community partnerships. as a whole litany of things out there. it's been a faith office in the west wing as a director of the president of the united states. that is how elevated the united states has how importance it is the president of the united states i have to give him a huge

round of thanks for putting us in that office. [applause] and i will tell you just a little bit of how it happened because i think it matters. i work for president trump all four years. in trump 45. one of the 12 people started the first and ended at the last day and i have the bruises to prove it. it was tough i never really understood with the spiritual warfare was until he worked in the trump white house. i will address that in a bit. after we left the white house we had in initiative the faith and opportunity initiative which a pastor paula white which is president trump's pastor for the last 24 years i said you cannot let this coalition go we had 32000 pastors, faith leaders, rabbis, you name it from every state from every ethnic background and denomination who all came together because of religious freedom. we drop the whole.

you believe in that, we all came together on religious freedom weaker was it national advisory board and that's what we did we were out of office. we bring faith leaders are on the present very quietly just that he welcome he enjoyed it he wanted to hear from them but we did that every few months over those four years. and then last march or pastor paula and i put a plan together we went to him in mar logout that mr. president we have this planned for this office and so he read through it. we were really good at branding we said president trump's white house faith office we did good breathing rate there we took president trump out of it after put it through but he read it and said i love it and of course he put his markings on the synod to do this, at this or whatever. but here's the amazing thing i like to share with people. he did not call a bunch of advisors. he did not ask a bunch of people should we do this?

in his heart, in his mind he just knew. he said yes to it so promises made, promises kept comes back into office and now we are there. we are just so grateful. but people ask us a lot what do you do all day what is a white house faith office dude you pray all day long? i wish we could that would be great i'm in a pre-throughout the day believe me we need it. we do a lot of prayer in the office i think you'd be very happy to know we've had people from every denomination come into the office and pray with us. it is been anointed with oil on the floor and on the door we do worship, we do prayer with a worship and prayer are welcome back in the white house because far too long it wasn't. faith was basically said you are not welcome here at the white house and so we have changed that. and so what we do is we make sure people of faith have a voice in their government. because for too long but the federal government come the state government the local

government has been discriminating its people of faith. people celebrate that coach kennedy won a supreme court case and i love coach kennedy i'm so glad we won. but we have a problem with religious freedom when a man who just wants to silently pray and kneel on a football field has to go through eight years of litigation to go all the to the supreme court to say that he could do that. we have a problem in america.

>> steve moore, we are the best uplift or they cannot be impediments to people of faith in this country as we have a policy director and engagement director and the engagement of his community we brought thousands and already and we booked over a few thousand and working on some of the issues and 70 think that we are tackling and i see it is very hd this house for people of faith foundation also the wall liberty commission dan patrick the chairman and cochair ethel committee advisory committee with what we do is bring

witnesses but i'm telling you how we go about this and were going not be discriminated against in the lot is taskforces. >> and the importance of that and bondi as the chair of that meeting is end of members are the actual cabinet secretaries in each of the departments and agencies out there. tessa going in looking for bias is another biases and here is the fair to be political, but i'm sorry faith and so we have to recognize that and so pretty

and their and adjust the firstly secretary rubio to the permissive over 200 violations of anti-christian bias coming forward in the last four years in the va, 500 instances of your writing the wrongs within the federal government and also cleaning out guidance and department of justice guidance and treasury guidance opium guidance and this is how we exercise their faith in the work in the public square because we just can't stand for him when people shout like pastor said don't want to get involved in some a face reason and preach the gospel and do nothing else. ask people in syria north korea south korea now and china, if it matters to the leaders fifth well in matters and because they

are the ones that it affects all of our houses of worship and faith leaders and so in the separation of church and state, you know a separation of church and state and i probably have a number of degrees with this new gnosis but the government cannot dictate to you what religious you can be and it is a mean you don't voice in the government so we are making sure that you have a voice in the government. [applause] [applause] >> i know some people that i don't know here grew up in east la in california to roman catholic mexican born mother and a jewish polish brooklyn new york born father who came together in high school matt was brought up the only one with chicken tortilla soup in moscow but truly believed the going up with my one grandmother had

spanish math and eventually coming and as evangelical i do not know how do we explain it. but then i do understand how to talk to all people and god is blessed me and you very seriously more not only constituting and people face domestically but international projects as well and a few things we have the office in the west wing in office in the eisenhower executive office building then we have faith directors never department and agency so we have an extension of the office and the state department and the department of war and hhs and the department of justice and even in the department of interior small business administration and so they are looking at life we represent the perfect when it comes to whatever issue the department is that you also see we don't oversee but were working with state directors and

departments in the governor's office in their 15 states and have faith officers reworking increasing you governors to do the same thing is the exciting part, we been talking to her counterpart countries and they want to start faith offices in other countries like italy and ecuador in africa and europe so very excited for the work that is so important because the fake diplomacy is just as important as other diplomacy when something like imagine reverend graham has here residence here we know the people in the country living about how they can help move the needle to protect before faith in our country to clear where it is meeting yesterday and are aware of what is happening in south. we are aware was happening in nigeria and there many really smart people were working with

us nor working on we understand we know nothing again put out today but know that we are working with you back on people he met with yesterday because most stories affect asthma care about the people of faith because her brothers and sisters are not just brothers and sisters and faith in the united states but also around the world. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> so when you're asked, do it because we need to hear from everybody and we have partners and stakeholders bring people to the white house and take pictures and post them out amazing wonderful we don't want to stop there but we want to be attained member what were doing and grow our collision international conference call the newsletter. part of that we welcome you to do that and his was a just

because when you're another we started with prayer and wondering if specialist president trump is going back from his trip to asia, if we could all recite the prayer together if you don't mind enjoying me and dear seven thank you for this day and think you for the amazing blessings you have bestowed upon us here in america and we pray for people of faith all over this country for the good work that they do and we ask you to give those big leaders courage, to be bold, courage to speak out encouraged to know that they are part of this government and presently special put a hedge of protection over all the brothers and sisters and faith across the world. we know that there there's so much more courageous than we are because they got to fight their leaders are so blessed to have a leader who is giving us a full platform last week we pray present from raleigh white house

staff and secretary rubio everybody there flying back and just have a bus trip home and asked for prayers for these amazing children god that we would work together and that we would be for the kingdom and work for you in jesus name amen. and thank you so much bring with me letting me having this time on stage. [applause] [app [applause] >> is welcome the u.s. representatives west virginia's second congressional district, riley for. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> hi there good morning. welcome. great to be with you all is he talking during bringing christian persecution is r